[Excerpt] "Gary Weiss, the Wall Street writer who was ahead of
his time with his comprehensive chronicle of Wall Street corruption in
2006 (Wall Street Versus America) charts a bold new course this week with the release of Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul.
Thanks to Weiss, the nation might just escape the next wave of Ayn
Rand’s radical capitalism and student brainwashing by corporate money
vultures fanning out across U.S. campuses.
Thanks to the trail paved in Weiss’ book, we did some further digging
into the money cartel financing this “spontaneous” outpouring of campus
and Tea Party interest in Rand, whose work is regularly considered by
top academics to be mediocre and simpleminded.
This cartel has a striking similarity to the network of university
economists set up by Big Tobacco in a money for hire scheme from 1983 to
the mid 90s to blanket Congress and the media with bogus OpEds and
research papers. ... " Read more at Counterpunch.
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